Can you make it back into corn?( Cartoon)

[thedaffodils]

Hi! Could you please tell me what "Can you make it back into corn" refers to in the cartoon attached.

Please click the thumbnail and see a full-size picture.

Thank you!

[riverkid]

Hi! Could you please tell me what "Can you make it back into corn" refers to in the cartoon attached.

Please click the thumbnail and see a full-size picture.

Thank you!

Corn and other food crops are being used to make a kind of "gasoline", ethanol. What it's doing is causing those commodities to rise in price, causing some food shortages. The old lady, a symbol of the poor, wants the ethanol changed back into something she can use, namely, food.

[thedaffodils]

Hi riverkid,

Thanks for your help.

I didn't get a good grade in my Chemical course. Same here. Commodity prices are soaring in China.

[riverkid]

Hi riverkid,

Thanks for your help.

I didn't get a good grade in my [Chemical] Chemistry course. Same here. Commodity prices are soaring in China.

One of the dumbest things mankind has ever done, using foodstuffs to make fuel. Absolutely bonkers.

[thedaffodils]

Hello again, riverkid! Thanks for your correction on my word and comment. Well noticed.

[bhaisahab]

One of the dumbest things mankind has ever done, using foodstuffs to make fuel. Absolutely bonkers.

Amen to that!